Swithens Drive Rothwell, Leeds

29 addresses across 1 postcode (LS26), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 23023181.

  • Sales: 30 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £275,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 1, D: 12, E: 2).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Leeds costs £2,284 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Woodlesford, about 2.6 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Rothwell Pastures, is about 440 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 50 to 55 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 29 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Oulton Medical Centre, about 2 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 56 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20252£275,000£260,000£290,000
20242£283,000£256,000£310,000
20231£327,000£327,000£327,000
20211£330,000£330,000£330,000
20192£213,750£210,000£217,500
20181£285,000£285,000£285,000
20171£252,000£252,000£252,000
20161£202,000£202,000£202,000
20151£174,000£174,000£174,000
20061£194,000£194,000£194,000
20051£195,000£195,000£195,000
20041£177,000£177,000£177,000
Most recent sales (30)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Nov 202514 LS26 0BDDetached£290,000
20 Aug 202516 LS26 0BDDetached£260,000
8 Nov 202418 LS26 0BDDetached£310,000
13 May 202428 LS26 0BDDetached£256,000
19 Oct 202330 LS26 0BDDetached£330,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Oct 202330 LS26 0BDDetached£327,000
17 Sep 202126 LS26 0BDSemi-detached£330,000
22 Nov 201910 LS26 0BDDetached£210,000
27 Sep 201936 LS26 0BDDetached£217,500
20 Apr 20182 LS26 0BDDetached£285,000
6 Nov 20178 LS26 0BDSemi-detached£252,000
16 Dec 201614 LS26 0BDDetached£202,000
16 Oct 201534 LS26 0BDTerraced£174,000
24 Feb 20061 LS26 0BDDetached£194,000
21 Jan 200522 LS26 0BDTerraced£195,000
20 Aug 20049 LS26 0BDDetached£177,000
7 Jun 20028 LS26 0BDSemi-detached£117,500
18 Jan 200219 LS26 0BDDetached£120,500
11 Jan 200226 LS26 0BDSemi-detached£89,950
7 Sep 200118 LS26 0BDDetached£92,500
30 Mar 200122 LS26 0BDTerraced£96,950
21 Dec 200032 LS26 0BDDetached£87,000
26 May 200034 LS26 0BDDetached£75,000
28 Jan 200019 LS26 0BDDetached£93,000
1 Apr 199911 LS26 0BDDetached£58,000
30 Oct 19989 LS26 0BDDetached£73,500
8 Sep 199826 LS26 0BDSemi-detached£68,500
27 Mar 199719 LS26 0BDDetached£83,000
24 Jul 19959 LS26 0BDDetached£67,000
21 Feb 19953 LS26 0BDDetached£64,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, detached (15); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (10); 1976-1982 (4); 1983-1990 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Leeds in 2026-27: Band D £2,284 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,522£1,776£2,030£2,284£2,791£3,299£3,806£4,567

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (33% of about 670 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 1 protected tree on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 29 addresses are between 50 m and 55 m above sea level (52 m on average); the ground rises about 6 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
LS26 0BD100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsWoodlesford 259,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Outwood 310,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Normanton 202,000 journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Marsh Street Library Rothwell190 m
Bus or coach stationWhite Rose Centre6.6 km (4.1 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Marsh Street, Rothwell GeniePoint260 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA18 km (11 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesOulton Medical Centre2 km (1.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots330 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rothwell Dental Care200 m
HospitalSpire Methley Park Hospital3.6 km (2.3 miles)
Police stationWest Yorkshire Police - Rothwell Police Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM330 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rothwell Pastures 13 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Springhead Park 21 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,390 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 3.9 ha910 m (0.6 miles)
Allotments5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Springfield Allotments 7,100 m²240 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 35 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 32, 34 and 36, Commercial Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 350 m north. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
32, 34 and 36, Commercial StreetListed building, Grade II*350 m north
Rothwell CastleScheduled monument580 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Oulton HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Swithen's PlantationWood600 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Gravel Pit WoodWood780 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Home CroftsWood1 km (0.6 miles) east
Robinson's PlantationWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Lofthouse HillHill2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Fleet CutLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)10.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)13.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 552829

1 of the street's 29 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Leeds: see them on the Leeds page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Rothwell Primary SchoolPrimary3–11190 m Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rothwell St Mary's RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11420 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Trinity Church of England Academy, RothwellPrimary4–11790 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Carlton Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cockburn Haigh Road AcademyPrimary3–71.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Victoria Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Oulton AcademySecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oulton Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Mulgrave House Nursing Home LS26 0BPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m5 Very good11 Dec 2025
Windmill Youth Club LS26 0AGOther catering premises180 mExempt
The British Oak LS26 0AGPub/bar/nightclub180 m4 Good22 Feb 2001
Lucky Choice LS26 0AGTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good11 Sep 2024
Active Minds Day Care Services LS26 0AGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good24 Oct 2024
Charlotte Cakes, Danielles Desserts LS26 0AGRetailers - other190 m5 Very good28 Jun 2019
De Oliveira Cafe Ltd LS26 0AGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m4 Good19 Jun 2025
Rothwell Athletic Club LS26 0BEOther catering premises200 m4 Good30 Nov 2001
De Oliveira Cafe Ltd LS26 0DBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 mAwaiting inspection
Aldi Stores LS26 0DJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets280 m5 Very good5 Jun 2024
Rothwell WMC LS26 0BBPub/bar/nightclub280 m5 Very good28 Jul 2016
MHA Communities Rothwell & District LS26 0TQOther catering premises300 mAwaiting inspection
Church Lunch Club LS26 0DBOther catering premises310 m5 Very good4 Jul 2025
Tina's Tots Nursery LS26 0DBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good30 Apr 2025
Greggs (Rothwell) LS26 0APRetailers - other330 m5 Very good16 Apr 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

56 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Shoplifting16
Public order7
Anti-social behaviour6
Criminal damage and arson4
Vehicle crime2
Other theft1
Robbery1
Burglary1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (18); On or near Hainsworth Street (12); On or near Prospect Place (9); On or near Prospect Terrace (4); On or near Carlton Green (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 296 residents in 134 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4940
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)68%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented20%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)34%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • LS26 0BD: 29 addresses of 31 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Swithens Court · Maple Rise · Hazel Court · Windmill Green · Springfield Street · Swithens Grove · Swithen's Street · Windmill Field Road · Smithson Street · Springfield Rise · Carlton Green · Prospect Terrace

All the streets in LS26 and across Leeds.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.